Fact-checking dies at Meta while AI rewrites the rules

The end of Meta's fact-checking era shows Big Tech no longer fears media backlash in an era where AI calls the shots. Things are about to get fuzzy.

Tech news always hits the New Year running. As if CES 2025 — with all its strange sloth robots, hologram selfie boxes, and electric salt spoons — wasn't enough, Mark Zuckerberg decided now would be a good time to announce Facebook and Instagram would drop third-party fact-checkers in lieu of a community notes system like on X. It turns out a lot of peop…